_ 40 _ go on to India, but the Captain-in-Chief showed them his commission and put them under obligation, which they could not avoid. Then he set sail with the four ships and the brigantine he had had built, equipped with shackles bolted to the benches, which he entrusted to Nicolao d’ Andrade, a suitable man for the task. They sailed along to the town of Kalhat, and he gave orders that it was to be attacked and destroyed. When they made landfall, he sent Dom Antonio de Noronha in the brigantine to go close to shore and see who appeared. The Captain of the /873/ town was Zafaruddin, a servant of Khwaja Attar, who at once sent an almadia with a present of six goats for the Captain-in-Chief. When the Moor who came in the almadia went aboard, he recognized the Captain-in-Chief and wanted to go straight back, but the Captain-in-Chief ordered him to be kept in a safe place and learned from him that there were few people in the town. Dom Antonio went close in to land and spoke to a Moor who was riding along the shore, who asked him whose fleet it was. He said that it had come from Portugal to join another Captain-in-Chief who was going to Ormuz, and the Captain wished him to go and speak to him on the ship.
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